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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

A Centenary Year Full of Thanksgiving and Celebration !

Pauline Family in Culver City

In the Los Angeles
area, we are very fortunate to have 7 branches of the Pauline Family
represented: The Society of St. Paul (from the Mexican Province), the Sister
Disciples of the Divine Master, the Daughters of St. Paul, the
Annunciationists, the Gabrielites, the Holy Family Institute, and the Pauline
Cooperators.

On June 25th,
2017, the Daughters of St. Paul in Culver City hosted the 100th
Anniversary Mass for Pauline Cooperators with Fr. Jim Barnes as the main celebrant. Members of the Pauline Family joined in the
Mass and Pot Luck dinner reception which followed the celebration.

Christin Jezak

Christin offered these
reflections after the celebration: “It was such a
blessing to gather with the different branches of the Pauline Family to
celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Cooperators! We renewed our
promises together, which was a reaffirming experience. It's always good
to remember that you are not alone in the Pauline mission. For the mass,
we used the readings for the feast of St. Paul and his presence was truly felt!
It was great after to sit down and have a meal together and to catch up with
old and new friends of the Pauline Family”.

As the Centenary of the
Pauline Cooperators celebration year continues, we prepare to gather again at
the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master’s house for the Feast of Jesus Master
in October and I am sure we will celebrate again close to the Feast Day of
Blessed James Alberione and in January 2018 close to the Feast of the
Conversion of St. Paul. As Sr. Tiziana,
PDDM, remarked in an email after our recent celebration, “these times of
celebration together remind us that we are truly a Pauline Family”!

The candidates and promised
Pauline Cooperators have enjoyed these opportunities to meet and come to know
the other members. This year of
thanksgiving and celebration will provide many joyous occasions to come
together as a Pauline Family. One of
our promised cooperators, Maria Siciliano said, "I enjoy meeting fellow Pauline
Cooperators at the many events hosted at Pauline Books and Media in Culver
City. My spirit is nurtured and my faith fed at these gatherings. We
Cooperators were excited to celebrate the 100th anniversary of our founding at the
special Mass held on June 25th at Pauline Books and Media in Culver City, CA.
As a Cooperator, I am honored to be part of Father Alberione's mission to
evangelize my corner of the world through media and the written word. As
a grandchild of Italian immigrants, I am always happy to travel to Italy to see
that beautiful country and my family that remains there. In May 2018, I
will have the additional privilege of traveling with my Pauline family to see where Father Alberione lived, worked, and
prayed. I can't think of anything better”!

Maria Siciliano

As mentioned by Maria
above, we are looking forward to the grand conclusion of the Pauline
Cooperators Centenary Year with the Pilgrimage to Rome May 18-28, 2018. There are two days of conferences for this
international gathering and the themes that will be presented during
the 2 days of conferences are: 1) The Pauline Cooperators and the Pauline
Spirit (the Spirit of St. Paul), 2) The Pauline Cooperators and the Church
Today: the Role of the Laity, and 3) The Pauline Cooperators in the Pauline
Family: Charismatic Aspect of the Mission of the Pauline Cooperator. Imagine the joy of gathering with Pauline
Cooperators from all over the world to reflect together on these themes and
then travel in Pilgrimage to the original sites of the founding of the Pauline
Family! Your RSVP forms to reserve your
place for this once in a lifetime adventure is due to Sr. Patricia Mary Maresca
by August 31st! Her email
address is pmaresca@paulinemedia.com. With the Grace of God, I hope to
see you all there!

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Sr. Marie James Hunt entered the Daughters of St Paul community in 1981. She is currently missioned in California where she is the local superior of the Culver City community. Sr. Marie James is also the West Coast Coordinator of the Pauline Cooperators.

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